Axalta Coating Systems has confirmed a multi-year team supplier agreement with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport for Spies Hecker. The move extends the relationship already in place between the reigning Formula One World Champions and Spies Hecker. Spies Hecker has been responsible for the paint of the liveries on the team’s Silver Arrows race cars for three [...]

AkzoNobel is helping bodyshops improve efficiency today and stay relevant tomorrow with a new digital colour-matching solution. Already thousands of bodyshops around the world are benefitting from Colorvation, a cloud-based solution that AkzoNobel claims makes colour matching easier, faster and more accurate. Instead of the guesswork of colour swatches, a subjective process that can depend [...]

Samsung has unveiled a battery that it claims can give electric cars a driving range of up to 310.7 miles on a 20 minute charge. The South Korean company said the battery can offer a complete driving range of up to 373 miles, with a 20-minute charge giving the battery 80 per cent capacity. ‘This [...]

Thanks to the accelerated integration of TRW, which took about 14 months, ZF has now moved ahead as a ‘cohesive aftermarket business’. ZF Aftermarket now lays claim to being the second largest supplier of parts, services and solutions in the global automotive aftermarket. ‘We are on-site where our customers expect us to be with committed [...]

CSN Blue Mountain Collision in Ontario has built a new bodyshop using Symach’s FixLine System. The new CSN Blue Mountain Collision centre, due to open in spring, is a 10,700sqft facility based on Collingwood, Ontario. The centre includes a layout and repair process that combines Symach’s patented Drytronic technology, specialised drying robots and the Symach [...]